Map of Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom
A modern map shows the locations of various Indian groups in Tidewater Virginia that in 1607 constituted the Powhatan paramount chiefdom. By 1607, Powhatan had expanded his domain, through a combination of force and diplomacy, to between twenty-eight and thirty-two groups anchored by the Powhatan Indians and five others: the Pamunkey, the Arrohateck, the Appamattuck, the Youghtanund, and the Mattaponi. While the core groups were situated along the James, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey rivers, the land the Indians called Tsenacomoco extended from north of the Rappahannock to the south side of the James, from the fall line to the Eastern Shore.
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- Opechancanough (d. 1646)
- Domesticated Animals by Early Virginia Indians, Uses of
- Political Organization in Early Virginia Indian Society
- Law and Justice in Early Virginia Indian Society
- Languages and Interpreters in Early Virginia Indian Society
- Colonial Virginia
- Eastern Chickahominy Tribe
- Harvey, Sir John (ca. 1581 or 1582–by 1650)
- Powhatan (d. 1618)
- Tsenacomoco (Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom)
- Patawomeck Tribe
- First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614)
- Jamestown Settlement, Early
- Indians in Virginia